Since the Song Family established itself at Funiu Mountain, whenever spring arrived and flowers bloomed, the family would summon its elders stationed outside back for a family council. Everyone would sit together to review the changes of the past year, then discuss and look ahead to the family's future development.
When Song Qingming first attended a family council, the Song Family had merely been a small Qi Refining family, with only twenty or thirty cultivators in the entire clan.
At the time, Song Qingming had only recently broken through to the Late Qi Refining Stage and had just begun to show a little promise before his clansmen. Now, nearly two hundred years had passed.
Two hundred years flew by like an arrow. The Song Family had leaped from an inconspicuous small Qi Refining family in Qinghe County to a Golden Core Immortal Clan dominating the entire northeastern region of Wei State.
Seeing the Council Hall now filled with so many younger members of the family, the weakest of whom had reached Foundation Establishment, Song Qingming was filled with emotion as he compared it to the days when he, Sixth Uncle, and several other Qi Refining Cultivators had sat here discussing the family's future.
"The family's prosperity today is due both to the ancestors' blessings and to all of your efforts. There is no need for such ceremony!"
After taking the seat of honor with Huang Siyuan, Song Qingming quickly waved to those below, signaling everyone to take their seats.
After receiving Song Qingming's nod, Song Yuanfang, the First Elder who had managed the family for many years, rose first and spoke:
"According to our usual rules, today's family council shall first tally the family's expenditures and income for the past year. I have already compiled and calculated these account books,